Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering

DOLCE (Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering) is a foundational ontology developed as part of the WonderWeb Foundational Ontologies Library (WFOL). The development of this library has been guided by the need of a reliable set of foundational ontologies that can serve as 1) astarting point for building other ontologies, 2) a reference point for easy and rigorous comparisons among different ontological approaches, and 3) a rigorous basis for analyzing, harmonizing and integrating existing ontologies and metadata standards (by manually mapping them into some general module(s) in the library). DOLCE is the first module of WFOL and it is not a candidate for a universal standard ontology. Rather, it is intended as a starting point for comparing and elucidating the relationships with the other modules of the library, and also for clarifying the hidden assumptions underlying existing ontologies or linguistic resources such as WordNet. As reflected by its acronym, DOLCE has a clear cognitive bias, in the sense that it aims at capturing the ontological categories underlying natural language and human commonsense. DOLCE is an ontology that focuses on particulars in the sense that its domain of discourse is restricted to them. The project is complete, though the ontology remains available for use.

DOLCE（描述性语言学与认知工程本体）是一项作为WonderWeb基础本体库（WFOL）的一部分开发的基础本体。该库的开发受到了构建其他本体、在不同本体方法之间进行便捷且严谨的比较，以及为分析、协调和整合现有本体及元数据标准（通过手动将它们映射到库中的某些通用模块）提供严谨基础的可靠基础本体的需求所指导。DOLCE是WFOL的第一个模块，它并非通用的标准本体候选。相反，它旨在作为比较和阐释与其他库中模块之间关系的起点，同时也是为了阐明现有本体或语言资源（如WordNet）背后隐藏的假设。正如其首字母缩略词所反映的，DOLCE具有明显的认知偏差，即在捕捉自然语言和人类常识背后的本体类别。DOLCE是一个关注特定事物的本体，其话语域被限制在这些事物上。该项目已圆满完成，尽管该本体仍然可供使用。